Isolated sinusitis sphenoidalis caused by Trichoderma longibrachiatum in an immunocompetent patient with headache

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART8, 2013, Pages 1249-1252

  Molnár Gábor, Etelka ^a   Dóczi, Ilona ^b   Hatvani, Lóránt ^c   Vágvölgyi, Csaba ^c   Kredics, László ^c  

^a Dr Marron Clinics   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; STEROID;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPSILOMETER TEST; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOSIS; NASAL LAVAGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINUSITIS; SPHENOID SINUS; STEROID THERAPY; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; HEADACHE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYCOSES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHENOID SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 84880299711     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.059485-0     Document Type: Article

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